Wrong Focus on Homelessness - Excuse to not care
(Written by Richard Frazer)

It does not take long to stumble on real problems in the public attitude to homelessness  when you are trying to raise awareness of the problems people on the streets face.  All people on the surface show sympathy and I am sure that is sincere however most will not help or want to hear about the problems. There are mechanisms people build to make this work:

Excuses to not care.

Lots of them and they range from. ‘If I give them money they spend it on drugs’. ‘They don’t stop begging after I gave them some food’. Well here is a new news report that has found a new way of helping people not care.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9359241/Homeless-charity-swamped-by-eurozone-migrants.html

Homeless Migrants – Apparently according to this report are flooding the country fleeing troubled spots of the eurozone.

Lets start handling the myths one by one.
‘They spend their money on drugs’ -  Some may do , some may not. These people are here in a miserable state because they are destitute and in sad conditions. They are likely to have physiological problems and also more likely to have drink and drug problems. They need the help of people. They need people to care. They need a society that will assist them out of their downward spiral to find the help they need. Help does not always mean money, it may mean food, an ear to talk to, time out your day. Assistance. These are people probably from your own community.

‘They don’t stop begging after I gave them food’ – No they don’t. None of them will. They are begging to survive. If they got food or money off you, they may not even thank you, but you have helped them. To survive on the street requires a tough persona where you have to be opportunist. Anyone who has been near homeless people will realise they are exactly the same people we all are. They just have less and are hurting. It is scarey to see people who once help jobs, foraging for something to eat in a bin  and drinking toxic liquids. It does not take long when working with destitute people that most will resort to this when necessity calls for it. I bet you would.

Lastly ‘Homeless European Migrants’  according to the Telegraph – This is just silly and divisive. Yes there will be some obviously. Every argument you care to put forward it is likely you can find cases that will back those arguments, but why would homeless Europeans come on-mass to the UK to be homeless UK migrants. Why would the poor in Poland think they will find any more or better work from the streets in Britain. If they have no money in any country it is a stupid idea to leave the lands you know penniless to lands where they don’t speak the language and expect something better. This is just not going to happen.

We must not stop having human compassion. We must not hide behind excuses and except this treatable wrong as the natural way things should be.
These people need your help and need your respect. All want an opportunity to do better and many never get a real chance to improve their condition once they find themselves destitute. Help the homeless.